Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Masquerades in London’s pleasure gardens

Put on your finest costume and join revellers on London’s fashionable 18th-century dancefloors

Food & Diet
Food & Diet

Pleasure gardens: London’s early restaurants?

London’s thriving restaurant scene has roots in these hedonistic spaces of music and entertainment

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

Pleasure gardens: London’s first music venues

Handel at Vauxhall? Mozart at Ranelagh? For 18th-century music fans, these were the places to be

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

What were London’s pleasure gardens?

For dancing, drinking, glamour and debauchery, there was nothing quite like the pleasure garden

Lifestyle & Leisure
Lifestyle & Leisure

A big night out at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

Discover the exciting new entertainment on offer to Londoners in the 1700s and 1800s